This step-by-step decorating guide offers helpful hints and creative ideas for furniture layouts, color schemes, lighting, window treatments, accessorizing and more that can help you avoid common home decorating mistakes and achieve the results you want. Whether you plan to start with an empty space or decorate using the furniture you already own, these easy-to-follow suggestions can help make your rooms more functional and attractive, using whatever budget you choose.

Have you ever purchased furniture, put paint on the walls, or brought home a new decor item only to discover that something just doesn't feel right?You're not sure what it is. Is it the wrong colour? Don't neutrals go with everything? Is it the wrong size? The wrong style?If this has ever happened to you, you're certainly not alone.Furniture, finishes, and the other products that fill your home are expensive at any budget level. There's no doubt about it.And home is where you spend the majority of your time. Your environment should be somewhere that showcases your personality and makes you feel proud.Some people get excited over decorating their homes. They could spend all day in showrooms picking cabinetry, hardware, and furnishings.For others, it's overwhelming and a bit intimidating.Whether you're someone who loves the decorating process, or whether you'd rather hand it all over to someone else, I wrote this book to act as a checklist and help you avoid the most common (and expensive) mistakes through the process.It doesn't matter if you're building from scratch or just redecorating one small space in your home, the information contained in this book will be eye-opening and useful to getting it right the first time.The compilation of these top 10 mistakes comes from what I see and what I'm asked most often when in client's homes.I'm going to share with you secrets that manufacturers don't want you to know... And tidbits that most decorators and designers hold close to their chest to make you pay for them or are too inexperienced to fully understand themselves.My goal in writing this book is to help make your world more beautiful. Our environments shape who we are and how we interact with ourselves and others. A well decorated home does a lot more than just give you bragging rights when friends come over.When your environment looks good and functions well, we feel better. We're more creative. We're more productive. And we're happier overall.

As a tween or teen, you shouldn't be afraid to express yourself when it comes to decorating. You can create a space that makes you happy, based on your own personal style, and this book will show you how. You'll learn helpful hints, money saving tips and fun ideas for furniture layouts, color schemes, lighting, window treatments, designer tricks, theme rooms, accessorizing and more, plus creative ideas for customizing your décor using fun do-it-yourself projects. Use this simple, step-by-step guide to help make your room more functional and beautiful--a place where you'll enjoy spending time. For Free decorating tips visit www.BlueSagePress.com.

Learn how to host theme parties that will make your event stand out from all the rest. This simple guide for successful party planning includes 33 party themes based on historical periods, travel locations, movies, books, holidays and more. Delight your friends with a 1920's Speak-Easy, a Sizzling Red Hot Birthday, a Sunset Caribbean Caper or a "Mad-Hatter" Bridal Shower. Also included are clever ideas for invitations, decorations, party favors, food displays and fun activities for guests. You'll be the hostess with the most creative ideas when you plan your next party using Flamigos, Poodle Skirts and Red Hots.

Memories of special meals prepared by loving family members evoke powerful emotions in all of us. These favorite dishes, commonly known as "comfort food", remind us of times and places in our lives that generate feelings of safety, warmth and joy. Inside you'll find more than 100 recipes from American cooks, spanning a period from the early 1900s to the 1980s. I've also included a few family comfort food stories and photos that will warm your heart as well as your tummy, plus a bit of history about popular food trends during each decade. These recipes are simple, hearty fare, but all are tried and true family favorites, like meatloaf, macaroni and cheese, chicken pot pie and banana pudding. I hope you enjoy this glimpse of comforting foods from our past and use these recipes to create your own taste of memories for the future.

A collection of recipes using familiar ingredients in an unexpected combination. Some are tried & true favorites like Apple Pie with Ketchup, Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake, Cola Sloppy Joe's & Popcorn Salad. Others are new concoctions like Pork n' Bean Bread, Cheesy Chocolate Fudge, Tomato Soup Crock Pot Cake & Twinkie Ice Cream Shake. More than 90 recipes for beverages, appetizers, soups, salads, breads, main dishes, sandwiches & desserts. You'll want to try them all.

Sandwich wraps are made from typical sandwich fillings that are wrapped inside a tortilla or other type of flatbread. They¿re perfect for an on-the-go lunch, a great way to use up leftovers, or for adding new flavors to your meals. This book includes tips for creating your own wraps, with suggestions for healthy choices, plus six sandwich filling recipes and 42 sandwich wrap recipes (both hot and cold) and that you can put together in a jiffy for a satisfying meal for breakfast, lunch or dinner.